Heaven (Avicii song)


"Heaven" is the third posthumous single by Swedish DJ Avicii, featuring vocals singer Chris Martin of British band Coldplay. The song was released on 6 June 2019, as the third single from Avicii's posthumous studio album Tim. The song became his third single, and his second posthumously, to reach number one on Billboards Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart in its 27 July 2019 issue.

Recording

The song was recorded with Chris Martin in 2014, at the same time they did "A Sky Full of Stars". It first premiered during Avicii's set at Future Music Festival in 2015. During the period of 2014 until 2019, there have been different versions of the song circulating the web. Finally Avicii chose the one with Chris Martin.
In 2015, Avicii premiered "Heaven" at 2015 Ultra Music Festival with a different singer, Simon Aldred, and said he thought he did the track justice. In 2016, Avicii worked on a version of "Heaven" with producer Carl Falk, with a revamped vocal from singer Simon Aldred and electric guitars added to the track. Avicii played this version of the track during the course of 2016, until he retired that year. Before his death, he eventually decided to release the version with Chris Martin instead. The song was played in his memory by Nicky Romero during Kingsland Festival in 2018. As Nicky said, Tim sent to him a folder full of new music, mostly unfinished but still usable for the shows. On 27 May 2018, the song was leaked online after being played by NRJ radio.
In April 2019, it was announced that the album Tim, which Avicii was working on before his death, would include the song "Heaven" in the album, which was released on 6 June 2019.
In December 2019, "Heaven" was played live by Aldred at the Avicii Tribute Concert benefiting the Tim Bergling Foundation.

Music video

The lyric video was released on 6 June 2019. The music video, called a "tribute video", which used old clips of Avicii, was released on 24 June 2019.

Remixes

On 27 July 2019, David Guetta played the remix of the song of "Heaven" at the Tomorrowland festival featuring Morten. The song was released on 23 August 2019.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from YouTube and Expressen.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications